Hey Steve,
On Apr 23, 2007, at 10:55 AM, Steve Fletty wrote:
Do any of you face issues with dealing with municipal wireless
initiatives impinging on your air space?
The University of Minnesota has a large footprint in in Minneapolis
and St. Paul. The city of Minneapolis is deploying a mesh
Nathan,
At Emory, we initially had a security/access model that was an open SSID, but
required users to initiate a VPN session to encrypt the air link and
authenticate the user. We finally retired this model as of the first of the
year. We are now using WPA-Enterprise (802.11i/802.1x) for
As promised, our presentation about the Visitor-Access survey
can be accessed at:
http://www.internet2.edu/presentations/spring07/20070424-access-linton-hanset.pdf
Thank you so much for all your replies.
We plan to analyze the survey one step further and come up with a
publication, but no
We use Ekahau software. Wireless Valley is better product, (It thinks in 3
dimensions, where Ekahau is two dimensional)
You load a floorplan onto the software. You scale it. (Measure a wall, and
tell the software how long the wall is)
First, you Simulate the layout.
You draw all the
We looked at several tools and even tried to hire a company to do a site survey
for us. Only one
company was interested since we were not going to purchase APs, installation
services, etc from
them. We finally decided to do our own site survey using bulding plans and
placing APs on a 75'
